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Retaining Wall Blocks in Brits
Retaining wall blocks in Brits: give the wall length, the height of soil to hold back, plantable or rock face blocks, and whether you want supply only or a built wall. Block yards and landscapers around Brits, North West can quote and say whether an engineer is needed.
New to this? Read the retaining wall blocks guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
Brits notes on bricks & blocks
Farm sheds and staff houses along the irrigation canals mostly use 140 mm or 190 mm hollow blocks. Around Hartbeespoort and Schoemansville, weekend homes call for face bricks, paving bricks for driveways and retaining blocks on steep plots facing the dam. In Letlhabile and Oukasie the usual order is cement maxi bricks for rooms and boundary walls.
Building with brick in Brits
Irrigated farmland, a busy industrial area and the holiday homes of Hartbeespoort give Brits a mixed building trade. Farmers along the canals need sheds, packhouses and staff housing in blocks, while factories add workshops and stores. In Letlhabile, Mothutlung and Oukasie families build and extend in cement bricks, and small brick yards sell straight off the slab. Around the dam, owners of weekend houses in Schoemansville and the estates order face bricks, paving and retaining walls for sloping plots. Block yards and machine sellers in the Brits industrial area serve the whole district. Summers are hot, with heavy afternoon storms, and the dry winters bring frost to the low ground near the Crocodile River.
Typical retaining wall blocks requests in the area come from:
- Homeowners: terracing a sloping garden or holding back the bank beside a driveway
- Farms and smallholdings: retaining walls for dam spillways, farm road cuttings and sloping yards
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: retaining walls on sloping plots before the house platform is built
Local tips for Brits
Most asked for in Brits: blocks for farm sheds and factories, face brick and paving around Hartbeespoort. Where the yards and suppliers are: block yards and machine sellers in the Brits industrial area and on the main road. A useful tip: ask whether the truck can reach a farm yard or a steep plot near the dam.
Retaining Wall Blocks usually suit garden banks, terraces, driveways, channels, made or supplied like this: dry stacked, each course set back. For homeowners, the biggest group here, that usually means terracing a sloping garden or holding back the bank beside a driveway. On the weather side: hot summers and storms; frost in low river valleys on winter mornings.
Service area: Brits and surrounds
Suppliers and contractors on our network work in Brits and surrounding areas, including Hartbeespoort, Letlhabile, Mothutlung, Oukasie, Damonsville, Mooinooi, Schoemansville. Give the suburb or township and whether a big truck can get in, so the quote can allow for delivery and offloading.